Construction Manager

Job Description

Overview

Join our growing team as a Construction Manager in Nashville, TN and play a pivotal role in shaping critical airport infrastructure that impacts communities and connectivity nationwide. In this role, you'll act as the key interface between design and construction, ensuring design intent is maintained while supporting field execution, resolving technical issues, and managing design changes throughout the construction phase of design-build projects.

You'll work at the intersection of engineering excellence and program delivery, ensuring projects are executed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with FAA and industry standards. Collaborating with industry-leading experts across disciplines, you'll have the opportunity to influence major capital improvement programs while advancing your own career in a supportive work environment. This is a high-visibility role ideal for professionals who thrive in dynamic, multidisciplinary settings and are motivated to drive innovation, deliver quality, and make a lasting impact on aviation infrastructure.

Your role

• Serve as the primary liaison between design teams, contractors, and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of design intent.
• Oversee review and coordination of shop drawings, material submittals, RFIs, and NCR responses to ensure compliance with contract requirements and standards.
• Manage design changes (Field Design changes and Designer initiated changes), including RFIs, design deviations, value engineering proposals, and construction-driven modifications.
• Coordinate technical support to construction teams and lead resolution of design conflicts, constructability challenges, site conditions, and non-conformances.
• Monitor design deliverables and response timelines to maintain alignment with project schedule and construction milestones.
• Ensure quality of design outputs through inspections, audits, and support during testing and commissioning, including accurate as-built documentation.
• Identify and mitigate design-related risks with proactive resolution strategies.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and provide regular reporting on design status, issues, and approvals.
• Support commercial input for change orders, claims, and contract interpretation.
• Assist with commissioning, handover, and closeout, ensuring completeness of as-builts and O&M documentation.
• Primarily located at construction site at Nashville Airport

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in construction or project management, with increasing responsibility
• Professional Engineer (PE) license (desired)
• Proven experience supporting airport or aviation infrastructure projects
• Excellent communication and client management skills
• Organized, proactive with demonstrated success managing priority tasks
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; familiarity with Procore

Rewards & benefits

At AtkinsRéalis, our values-Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, and Excellence-are more than just words. They are the foundation of who we are and how we work. These principles shape our culture, guide our decisions, and inspire us to create an environment where every team member feels empowered to grow, succeed, and make a meaningful impact.

Depending on your employment status, AtkinsRéalis benefits may include medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits, employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting, employee stock purchase plan, Paid Time Off, leaves of absences options, flexible work options, recognition and employee satisfaction programs, employee assistance program, and voluntary benefits. You can review our comprehensive benefits page here.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Expected compensation range is between $90,400- $120,000 annually depending on skills, experience, and geographical location.

Are you ready to expand your career with us? Apply today and help us shape something extraordinary.

AtkinsRéalis is an equal opportunity, Drug-Free employer EOE/Veteran/Disability.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.